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58
Citations
20168
World Ranking
12925
National Ranking
5505

Overview

Martin Wu is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States and specializes in research primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions also in Medicine.

The scientist's research spans several specialized subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Infectious Diseases, Physiology, and Ecology. These areas inform a variety of topics that are central to their work:

  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
  • Genetic diversity and population structure

Martin Wu has published in several academic venues. The most frequent include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Current Biology
  • Diabetes
  • The ISME Journal

Selected recent papers demonstrate the scope and focus of their research:

  • Butyrate-Producing Bacteria and Insulin Homeostasis: The Microbiome and Insulin Longitudinal Evaluation Study (MILES), 2022, Diabetes
  • Multi-omic meta-analysis identifies functional signatures of airway microbiome in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 2020, The ISME Journal
  • Re-evaluating the evidence for a universal genetic boundary among microbial species, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Dopamine Signaling in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Enables Weight Gain Associated with Hedonic Feeding, 2020, Current Biology
  • Glucocorticoids coordinate changes in gut microbiome composition in wild North American red squirrels, 2022, Scientific Reports

Martin Wu has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Yingnan Gao
  • Alain G. Bertoni
  • Kristi L. Hoffman
  • Jerome I. Rotter
  • Joseph F. Petrosino

Best Publications

  • The Genome Sequence of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae

    Robert A. Holt;G. Mani Subramanian;Aaron Halpern;Granger G. Sutton

  • A phylogeny-driven genomic encyclopaedia of Bacteria and Archaea.

    Dongying Wu;Dongying Wu;Philip Hugenholtz;Konstantinos Mavromatis;Rüdiger Pukall

  • Phylogenomics of the Reproductive Parasite Wolbachia pipientis wMel: A Streamlined Genome Overrun by Mobile Genetic Elements

    Martin Wu;Ling V. Sun;Jessica Vamathevan;Markus Riegler

  • Three Genomes from the Phylum Acidobacteria Provide Insight into the Lifestyles of These Microorganisms in Soils

    Naomi L. Ward;Jean F. Challacombe;Jean F. Challacombe;Peter H. Janssen;Peter H. Janssen;Bernard Henrissat

  • The genome sequence of Bacillus anthracis Ames and comparison to closely related bacteria

    Timothy D. Read;Timothy D. Read;Scott N. Peterson;Scott N. Peterson;Nicolas Tourasse;Les W. Baillie;Les W. Baillie

  • Macronuclear Genome Sequence of the Ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila, a Model Eukaryote

    Jonathan A. Eisen;Robert S Coyne;Martin Wu;Dongying Wu

  • Genome of Geobacter sulfurreducens: Metal Reduction in Subsurface Environments

    B. A. Methé;K. E. Nelson;Jonathan A Eisen;I. T. Paulsen

  • Rapid evolution of enormous, multichromosomal genomes in flowering plant mitochondria with exceptionally high mutation rates.

    Daniel B. Sloan;Andrew J. Alverson;John P. Chuckalovcak;Martin Wu

  • The psychrophilic lifestyle as revealed by the genome sequence of Colwellia psychrerythraea 34H through genomic and proteomic analyses

    Barbara A. Methé;Karen E. Nelson;Jody W. Deming;Bahram Momen

  • Comparative Genomics of Emerging Human Ehrlichiosis Agents

    Julie C Dunning Hotopp;Mingqun Lin;Ramana Madupu;Jonathan Crabtree

  • Incorporating 16S Gene Copy Number Information Improves Estimates of Microbial Diversity and Abundance

    Steven W. Kembel;Martin Wu;Jonathan A. Eisen;Jonathan A. Eisen;Jessica L. Green;Jessica L. Green

  • A simple, fast, and accurate method of phylogenomic inference.

    Martin Wu;Jonathan A Eisen;Jonathan A Eisen

  • Phylogenomic analysis of bacterial and archaeal sequences with AMPHORA2

    Martin Wu;Alexandra J. Scott

  • Genome Sequence of Aeromonas hydrophila ATCC 7966T: Jack of All Trades

    Rekha Seshadri;Sam W. Joseph;Ashok K. Chopra;Jian Sha

  • Seasonal, spatial, and maternal effects on gut microbiome in wild red squirrels.

    Tiantian Ren;Stan Boutin;Murray M. Humphries;Ben Dantzer

  • The complete genome sequence of Chlorobium tepidum TLS, a photosynthetic, anaerobic, green-sulfur bacterium.

    Jonathan A. Eisen;Karen E. Nelson;Ian T. Paulsen;John F. Heidelberg

  • Genomic Insights into Methanotrophy: The Complete Genome Sequence of Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath)

    Naomi Ward;Øivind Larsen;James Sakwa;Live Bruseth

  • Microbiota alteration is associated with the development of stress-induced despair behavior

    Ioana A. Marin;Jennifer E. Goertz;Tiantian Ren;Stephen S. Rich

  • Life in Hot Carbon Monoxide: The Complete Genome Sequence of Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans Z-2901

    Martin Wu;Qinghu Ren;A. Scott Durkin;Sean C Daugherty

  • Accounting For Alignment Uncertainty in Phylogenomics

    Martin Wu;Sourav Chatterji;Jonathan A. Eisen;Jonathan A. Eisen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan A. Eisen
Jonathan A. Eisen University of California, Davis
William C. Nelson
William C. Nelson Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Robert J. Dodson
Robert J. Dodson Northwestern University
Sean C. Daugherty
Sean C. Daugherty University of Maryland, Baltimore
Daniel H. Haft
Daniel H. Haft National Institutes of Health
Claire M. Fraser
Claire M. Fraser University of Maryland, Baltimore
Ian T. Paulsen
Ian T. Paulsen Macquarie University
Robert T. DeBoy
Robert T. DeBoy J. Craig Venter Institute
Luiz E. Bermudez
Luiz E. Bermudez Oregon State University
Steven L. Salzberg
Steven L. Salzberg Johns Hopkins University

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